The Dragon Country team won an 8:1 victory and ushered in a good start to this Asian Cup!

This exciting victory made the Dragon Country fans suddenly optimistic about the prospects of the Dragon Country Team in this Asian Cup, and eagerly hoped that the Dragon Country Team could make history and win a truly weighty championship trophy!

The changes of the Dragon Country team in the past year or so have been seen by Dragon Country fans, and everyone's impression of the Dragon Country Team has changed, and they have regained hope for the future of Dragon Country football.

Now, there is only one blockbuster event that can be decisive to completely change the fans' impression of Dragon Country football.

And the championship of the Asian Cup is definitely the most practical and most likely goal for the current Dragon Country team!

The championship of the World Cup is still unattainable for the current Dragon Nation team; The Olympics are still far away; Although the grade of the Asian Games is slightly lower, it can be regarded as a phased goal, but the performance of the U23 national youth team has once again been disappointing, not only did not boost the confidence of fans, but played a certain degree of counterproduct.

As for small events such as the East Asian Cup and the Dragon Cup, they can no longer meet the expectations of Dragon Country fans.

Only the Asian Cup in front of us can take on this heavy responsibility!

Prior to this, the Dragon Football Association and the Dragon Team have not publicly announced the goal of participating in this Asian Cup, the biggest purpose is to let the players of the Dragon Team travel lightly and not carry such a heavy burden.

Now, under the pressure of domestic public opinion, the Dragon Country team has to stand up and show its attitude!

In the on-site visit after the match with Kyrgyzstan, as well as at the press conference, the Dragon team still continued the previous propaganda tone and did not directly talk about winning the championship.

But the next day, the tone of the Dragon Country team made a 180-degree turn, from the team leader to the players below, they all opened their mouths and closed their mouths to "strive for the championship"!

Clearly shouting the slogan of "winning the championship" has advantages and disadvantages for the Dragon Country team, but on the whole, the advantages still outweigh the disadvantages.

Although carrying the goal of competing for the championship can cause some pressure on the players, the game of football, by its very nature, is a game of winning and losing, and there is no intermediate value.

Moreover, the current situation is that even if the Dragon Country team still does not talk about competing for the championship, with the current performance of the Dragon Country team, other opponents will not take the Dragon Country team lightly.

Since there is no possibility of paralyzing the opponent, it is better to simply put the goal on the bright side and win more fan support, so that the players can add some motivation while carrying the pressure.

Moreover, with the belief of competing for the championship, the Dragon Country team can also show more domineering in the next game, and deter the opponent from another aspect.

In this situation, the second round of the group stage of this Asian Cup came as scheduled.

The second opponent of the Dragon Country in the group stage is the Philippine team, and the start time of this match is January 11, 2019, at 5:30 p.m. local time in the United Arab Emirates and 9:30 p.m. Beijing time in the Dragon Kingdom, and the venue is the Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi.

Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium is a medium-sized and large stadium with a capacity of 42,000 spectators, and this number of spectator seats can meet the on-site viewing needs of Dragon Kingdom fans to a certain extent.

The Philippine team, like the Kyrgyzstan team, benefited from the expansion policy of this Asian Cup, and only entered the new team of the Asian Cup finals for the first time, and the FIFA ranking has been outside the top 100 for a long time.

If in the first two years, the Dragon Country team still has to be cautious in the face of such an opponent, and if one is not careful, there is a possibility that the horse will stumble.

But now, with a Dinghai god needle like Shen Feng, in the face of such a weak team, the Dragon Country team can be said to be how to fight.

Even if the opponent lined up eleven people on the goal line on the field and completely blocked the goal, Shen Feng also had the unreasonable Heavenly Dao Law like "Skill: One Hit Must Hit" available!

The process of this game with the Philippine team is the same as the last game with the Kyrgyzstan team, and the Dragon Country team, which plays with the strongest lineup, is not at all something that the Philippine team can compete with.

Although the Philippine team has repeatedly studied the video of the match between the Dragons and Kyrgyzstan after the last round of matches and believes that they have found some ways to limit the performance of the Dragons, the coaches and players of their team swore before the game that the game would never be reduced to a one-sided situation.

However, after the game really started and the Philippine team and the Dragon Country team started their battle face to face, the Philippine team felt the horror of this Dragon Country team!

The Dragon Country Team and the Philippine Team had a warm-up match in June last year, and that game was the first time that Shen Feng officially wore the uniform of the Dragon Country Team, and it was also the foundation for Shen Feng's status in the Dragon Country team.

In that game, Shen Feng not only scored a hat trick himself, but also assisted his teammates to score twice, and finally helped the Dragon Country team defeat the Philippine team 8:1.

It was with that big victory that the Dragon Country team reversed the direction of the wind in the next three World Cup qualifiers in the top 12 of the Asian zone, in an extremely unfavorable situation, and finally fought a bloody way out, miraculously advancing to the World Cup finals for the second time.

After that fiasco, the Philippine team learned from the pain and spent a lot of effort to naturalize several players from Africa and South America, and the strength of the team is now much stronger than more than a year ago.

This is also the main source of confidence for the Philippine team to snipe the Dragon Nation team in this game before the game.

However, the Philippine team did not take into account that their strength has increased, and the Dragon Country team has not stood still for more than a year, after a series of events such as the World Cup Qualifiers, East Asian Cup, Dragon Cup, World Cup, etc., now this Dragon Country team is not the same as more than a year ago.

The Philippine team recognized the importance of Shen Feng to this Dragon Country team, so at the beginning of this game, they focused on Shen Feng's defense, wanting to disrupt the Dragon Country team's attack by cutting off his connection with his teammates.

Unexpectedly, Shen Feng's ability to not only attack and score goals by himself, but also create opportunities and assists for his teammates is also high!

The Philippine team limited Shen Feng's play in this game to a certain extent through multi-person wrapping and double-person marking, but because the defensive focus was on Shen Feng alone, it was inevitable that he would be exposed in other places.

Wu Lei, who continued to partner with Shen Feng as a double striker of the Dragon Country team, scored a hat trick in the last game with Kyrgyzstan, although after Shen Feng was replaced, his offensive efficiency was much lower than when Shen Feng was on the field, four shots in the first half in exchange for two goals, and five shots in the second half before scoring the third goal, but overall, the competitive state is still good.